Oswald Poche (born 28 January 1908 in Brandenburg an der Havel – 22 September 1962 in Dannenberg) was chief of the Gestapo, (secret state police) of Nazi Germany, for Frankfurt at the Lindenstrasse station.
Poche initiated together with the Chief of Department II, Superintendent Ernst Grosse, the emergency services for all these deportations.
Oswald Poche as Gestapo chief of the Police Lindenstrasse Station used Grosse and Heinrich Baab to carry out his orders.
[3] From September 1943, he served as the successor to Reinhard Breder in Einsatzkommando 2, part of Einsatzgruppe A, during the war in the east against the Soviet Union.
His task force had committed the 1941–42 mass murder of Jews and political commissars in the wake of Army Group North.